Pack away those scopes -- a wet summer is forecast

In all seriousness I just have a hard time believing that they can predict the weather for the next few months. They have a hard enough time getting it right for two days in the future.

Just take what comes - there's no point in wondering what's going to be happening in August. There's just no way to know.

First of all, meteoroligists are talking through their hats when they forecast an entire summer's weather.

They can't.

Secondly, in Ireland, 19 degrees below the Arctic Circle in Mid Atlantic,the chances are good that we will have a wet summer.

Doesnt take "Mystic Meg" to tell me that one.

Ireland, 19 degrees below the Arctic Circle in Mid Atlantic,the chances are good that we will have a wet summer.

Doesnt take "Mystic Meg" to tell me that one.

you read my mind :lol:

One other thing.
I was just on the phone to my grandmother a minute ago.
She told me that the Haws on the Hawthorn bushes were out early this year and the swallows are flying high... so its going to be a great Summer.

Them weathermen dont know their a*** from their elbow.

The indian chief is getting old... He has got to do something so his people still respect him.
So one automn afternoon he invites the men to come to his tipi and says to them: "Ough.. Cut trees. Winter cold".
The men do as he orders and after a week report: "Big Chief, we cut trees ok. Look at them!". The chief says: "Not enough. Cut more trees. Winter very very cold". "Are you sure, chief?" "Yes, I am sure".
The men again do as he says, but he insists: "Cut more trees. Winter extremely cold". "Are you sure, chief?" "Yes, I am sure". So they do again.
And again and again.
But deep in his mind he is not so sure. So, secretely, he puts on his Levi's jeans, cowboy stetson hat and Rayban sunglasses, goes to the NASA Headquarters and finds the guy in the Weather Forecast Division. Computer screens, mainframes, satellite control room, hi-tech environment.
There he is presented the oficcial NASA model of the coming winter: Heavy snowfalls, lowest temperatures ever, tornados, crisis.
"Are you sure? He asks. Why your iron birds predict such a weather?"
"Satellites are just machines" the guy replies. "Machines do mistakes. To be honest with you, we typically just observe the indians. This year they ' ve gone crazy . They haven't left a single tree standing on the mountain slopes!"

Very good - that's about the size of it all right